How To: Create And Install Your Own Cursor
a step by step guide using animation shop (a program free with paint shop pro)

Requirements:

• Animation Shop (can be found on the same disk as Paint Shop Pro)
• Any image

Are you displeased with the cursor you've got? Are you dissatisified with those cursors you downloaded from that site? Then this tutorial's for you. Read on...

1. Create or download your favourite image off the web. Open it in some image editing software (ie Paint Shop Pro) and resize it to 15x15. In Paint Shop go to Image --> Resize. Enter 15 in the width box and 25 in the height box. Your image should now be about so high and so wide:
   
   
   
   Save the image as cursor1.jpg in the My Pictures folder. You can create more images if you wish to create and animated cursor. Save these as cursor2.jpg, cursor3.jpg etc
2. Open animation shop (File --> Jasc Software Products --> Launch Animation Shop ) and hold down the keys Shift and A. The animation wizard should come up:
   
   
   
3. Click Next four times and then click add images. Locate to the My Pictures folder and select cursor1.jpg. If you wish to create an animated cursor, you should have created more images earlier on. Add these images on now.
4. Click Next then Finish.
5. You may add any effects to your animated cursor at this time. Because this tutorial is aimed mainly at beginners, we will not go into this.
6. Go to File --> Save As. Locate to the My Pictures folder and call your cursor cursor. From the dropdown list Animated Cursor (*.ani) even if your cursor is not animated.

So now you have successfully created and saved your cursor. Now we are going to make it the default cursor.

1. Go to Start --> Control Panel
2. If available on the left menu under Control Panel click Switch to Classic View
3. Double click on Mouse
4. Click on the tab Pointers
5. Go to Normal Select and click Browse
6. Select the file cursor.ani under My Pictures
7. Click OK and close Control Panel

And there you should have it, your own cursor created and installed. Any questions regarding this tutorial?

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Edit (made 5/11/06 - Fireworks Night):

Please note: This tutorial was done in Paint Shop Pro 9 and Animation Shop 3 The procedure may differ slightly from the current versions.

its a nice tutorial for people in compter design/os design, but for me makig or downloading these curors are just a waste space, last time i downloading some cursors it just came out all wrong had to spend time lining them up in order to close out on programs and that i jsut stayed with the default cursors.

still a good well detail tutorial cmat----two halos XP

Hey Thats an awesome tut I wish I had photoshop or animation shop

WELL , THANKS,ANYBODY HAS TRIED THIS WAY?

godglitcher, you can download the trial versions as www.jasc.com.

As for the tutorial, thank you so much, I always thought you just had to use flash and it is complicated. I will have to try this although it will probably lag my computer.

very nice tutorial. hmmm... i'm thinking of making a boob-cursor

I never tried to do a Cursor.
It's very interesting!

But I prefer this simple cursor
Lucas

Hehe, boobies


Thanks for the tutorial and the trial link, i'll have to try this sometime

I've not created a cursor before, although has been something I've thought about doing but never actually done.

I do actually quite like the default cursors which come with Windows, although if I want to use a more custom design (create one myself) this tutorial will help out a lot.

Thanks for sharing, I might try it sometime just to see whether my cursors would be any good!